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We understand that Foxconnís plants are experiencing issues meeting high iPhone 5 demands, but itís not a proper solution to be hiring underage interns in the attempt to make things go faster and smoother.

Foxconn has reportedly admitted to hiring underage interns for work. Due to child labor laws in China, an individual must be at least 16 years of age to be working. Results of an internal investigation yielded workers even as young as 14 years of age (uh-oh!). According to Foxconn, schools sent the students as part of an internship program, although the company failed to check their IDs to ensure that they were of legal working age:

Originally Posted by Foxconn

These underage interns were mainly sent to Foxconn by schools, but Foxconn did not check the IDs of these young interns. The schools involved in this incident should take primary responsible, but Foxconn is also culpable for not confirming the ages of their workers.

Foxconn has done the right thing by not only telling the truth and apologizing, but they are also removing the underage workers from the premises and returning them to their schools where they belong. These young, ex-interns will not be interning for Foxconn anymore, but at least they're getting the education they need.

According to Foxconn, steps will be taken to "ensure that it can never happen again." Hopefully, this is truly the case.

sounds like classic case of uh oh we got caught so now we are sorry and oh it will never happen again cmon common sense will tell u they knew exactly how old they were it just got out thats all i live in the u.s and ive been workin since i was 6 everyday after school on a farm and most weekends all day so gimme a break its not like they were sweat shop slaves

I really can't see this happening anytime soon. Firstly, the cost reductions of using Chinese labour when you need hundreds of millions of products manufactured in small time spaces is phenomenal and Apple are already seeing the overall cost for their products rising with each release as they try to improve the quality. Furthermore, removing Samsung from their supply chain could be costly in the short-term, I believe they had mutually beneficial business needs - Samsung are probably the most consistent and reliable manufacturing partner in Apple's supply chain so I can see further problems arise in the future with the companies they use to replaces Samsung's services.

The truth is, when you're as big and prominent as Apple, you can never be perfect, critics will always find a flaw in the company's ethics and exploit it to the media.

Also, I don't necessarily agree with child labour but at least they do have jobs and are earning some sort of income. The pressure shouldn't be on Apple or Foxconn but on the governments that allow this to happen.

I am working in China at the moment (I'm an English service engineer here for a few weeks) and I was chatting to a young electrician in the plant I'm at. He told me he worked at Foxconn for a couple of months whilst still at school . From what I could gather (through my interpreter) it was a bit like the 'work experience' I did when I was still at school, you get sent out to an employer and gain some experience of working life. I think the deal was that the school got paid, so this probably provided the school with extra income for text books etc. Doesn't sound too bad to me

!!!although the company failed to check their IDs to ensure that they were of legal working age:!!!
Im missing something here,on first place , before you start on any job , you fill an application,correct. the first thing they do, the make copy of you documents.a least Here In usa. is that way.

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Originally Posted by Alluziion

I really can't see this happening anytime soon. Firstly, the cost reductions of using Chinese labour when you need hundreds of millions of products manufactured in small time spaces is phenomenal and Apple are already seeing the overall cost for their products rising with each release as they try to improve the quality. Furthermore, removing Samsung from their supply chain could be costly in the short-term, I believe they had mutually beneficial business needs - Samsung are probably the most consistent and reliable manufacturing partner in Apple's supply chain so I can see further problems arise in the future with the companies they use to replaces Samsung's services.

The truth is, when you're as big and prominent as Apple, you can never be perfect, critics will always find a flaw in the company's ethics and exploit it to the media.

Also, I don't necessarily agree with child labour but at least they do have jobs and are earning some sort of income. The pressure shouldn't be on Apple or Foxconn but on the governments that allow this to happen.

Yes

Originally Posted by Alluziion

I really can't see this happening anytime soon. Firstly, the cost reductions of using Chinese labour when you need hundreds of millions of products manufactured in small time spaces is phenomenal and Apple are already seeing the overall cost for their products rising with each release as they try to improve the quality. Furthermore, removing Samsung from their supply chain could be costly in the short-term, I believe they had mutually beneficial business needs - Samsung are probably the most consistent and reliable manufacturing partner in Apple's supply chain so I can see further problems arise in the future with the companies they use to replaces Samsung's services.

The truth is, when you're as big and prominent as Apple, you can never be perfect, critics will always find a flaw in the company's ethics and exploit it to the media.

Also, I don't necessarily agree with child labour but at least they do have jobs and are earning some sort of income. The pressure shouldn't be on Apple or Foxconn but on the governments that allow this to happen.